Verdicts & Settlements

The decedent was a 28-year-old female who presented to the emergency department of Sentara CarePlex Hospital on Feb. 1, 2011, shortly after midnight. She complained of having developed episodes of sharp subscapular chest pain (lasting about five minutes) earlier that ...

Plaintiff was a passenger on a luxury boat that was speeding in a no-wake zone in Naples, Florida. The boat ran aground. Plaintiff was thrown against a safety rail and fractured her right orbit. [14-T-196] Type of action: Personal ...

Plaintiff, an 11-year-old girl, suffered a permanent brachial plexus injury during her birth that left her with a severe permanent disability. In 2003, plaintiff’s mother received prenatal care from defendants. Prior to labor, plaintiff’s mother had gained an excessive amount ...

On May 25, 2009, the 20-year-old plaintiff was involved in a major auto accident in Winchester. Plaintiff’s boyfriend and driver of the car in which she was a passenger died at the scene. Plaintiff was pulled from the burning wreckage ...

The patient was a 68-year-old male with a history of hypertension, a half-pack per day smoking habit, hypertensive heart disease, GERD, alcoholism and colon polyps. He presented to the hospital on Aug. 8, 2011, for a colectomy and subtotal and ...

In December 2013, the driver of a commercial box truck rear-ended a van in the right hand lane on a major street in Hampton Roads with a 35 mph speed limit. The driver of the van was ejected and died ...

Plaintiff, a mostly retired fisherman, was riding his motorcycle when the defendant pulled out from a commercial parking lot into his path of travel. Plaintiff’s motorcycle was bent severely, and he suffered broken hip, leg and ankle from the collision. ...

Plaintiff, a 49-year-old woman, was driving southbound on I-81 for work when the defendant’s decedent left the northbound lanes of I-81, crossed the median, entered the southbound lanes, and collided head-on with the plaintiff’s vehicle. Decedent, a beloved schoolteacher in ...

Plaintiff was traveling home after visiting with his wife in a local hospital. On his way home, defendant was operating a farm use truck on a dark country four-lane highway. Plaintiff’s car struck the rear of the farm truck at ...

On June 25, 2010, plaintiff’s decedent, a 49-year-old female who worked as a computer systems analyst making $175,000 per year, presented to the defendant rheumatologist for diagnosis and treatment of a persistent forearm rash, aching joints, shortness of breath and ...